Velocity Student Ministries at Gladwin Assembly of God meets on Wednesday nights for a discussion entitled "r@Nd0m". It is a time for students to ask any question they want to and then we discuss it. This blog is the follow up to that discussion each week.

Saturday, September 17, 2011

A Walk to Remember 9/14/2011

Tonight we had a pleasant surprise in r@Nd0m. I got a call this afternoon from Trey Hancock, a missionary who lives in Dearborn. He is walking from Dearborn to Mackinaw City to raise money to build a church. Yes you read that right. He started on September 5th and has walked all the way to Gladwin. He will continue all the way to Mackinaw City and celebrate with a plunge in the waters beneath the bridge. Since we had this golden opportunity I asked him if he would join us and share with the students and answer some questions.

Here's a little bit of background on Trey. He has been ministering to Muslims in Dearborn for many years. I remember as a teenager that he came to visit my youth group. He has been faithfully serving the Lord in a challenging field for quite some time. The greatest population of Middle Eastern Muslims outside of the middle east live in Dearborn. It's as if you have left the United States and stepped into the middle east at times. It's quite a different culture to live and minister in. He's been doing this for years and now they are in the process of building a church there.

One of the students asked him why he was walking so far. I jokingly said he was trying to show what it's like to be a missionary without speed the light. That really isn't the case, but he liked that and I'm sure he is understanding what that would be like. Just a reminder to all the students we need to provide the equipment for our missionaries to do the work God has called them to do. OK, I'm done with my commercial. Trey shared that his real reason for walking was to raise funds to build the church. Then he shared a bit about ministering to Muslims.

Trey talked about how Islam is completely anti-Christian. The world we live in would like to water down our religions and pretend that we are all one. That is a deception that Satan would like us to believe in order to lead us away from God. The call to prayer of Islam states that there is no other god but Allah and Muhammad is his prophet. This is a complete lie. The Bible clearly states that there is one God and Jesus Christ is His son. Some would try to confuse us into believing that we are all worshipping the same God in different ways. That is just not true. There is only one true God. Please keep Trey and his ministry in your prayers. Pray for Muslims everywhere that they would hear and accept the Gospel of Jesus Christ.